| ZALDIVA, INC. Stock Symbol :: ZLDV |
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 | ZALDIVA, INC. (ZLDV) Zaldiva, Inc. through their website sells various new and vintage pop-culture collectibles and sports memorabilia, including comic books, statues and figurines, seasonal decor, DVDs, posters, dolls, action figures, T-shirts and die-cast vehicles | |||||||||||
Zaldiva, Inc. 331 E. Commercial Blvd. Oakland Park, FL 33334 Phone: (877) 925-3482 Fax: http://www.zaldiva.com |
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 | Zaldiva Details Rollup Strategy Zaldiva, Inc. continues to actively pursue its objective of rolling-up smaller comic and collectibles retailers under its Zaldiva brand. The company has isolated its first 5 targets for acquisition. These smaller comic retailers, the 'mom and pop' stores, don't have the infrastructure to compete in the marketplace. They’ve built a solid foundation with their online store and have backed it up with a successful retail location that integrates eBay online auctions. When they talk about 'rolling up' or 'acquiring' other retailers they are looking at comic book companies with large 'subscriber' bases,meaning recurring monthly revenues. | Zaldiva Forms Joint Venture with InvestComics Zaldiva, Inc., recently announced that it has formed a joint venture arrangement with InvestComics of West Palm Beach, Florida. The joint venture will consist of both companies utilizing the World Wide Web to increase their market share and brand awareness in the comic and collectibles industry. The joint venture will focus on directing collectors to Zaldiva.com for their comic book investments. Zaldiva will be the prime comic book carrier for InvestComics. A collector will be directed to Zaldiva to build on their portfolio, or for any other comic book paraphernalia that they may need. |
| Company Overview |
Zaldiva, Inc., (OTCBB: ZLDV) Zaldiva, Inc. is in the business of selling comic books, toys and collectible items at their retail location at 331 East Commercial Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and through their web sites, Zaldiva.com, and Zaldivacomics.com. They also offer web design, hosting and IT services as well as their own brand of premium cigars and accessories. Since fiscal 2003, they have focused their operations increasingly on their online comic book and collectible retail operations, with less emphasis on cigar sales and web design and hosting. Following the grand opening of their new "brick-and-mortar" retail location in December, 2006, they expect that their operations will increasingly focus on the comic book and collectible end of business. In the future, they may also acquire other small companies offering similar products and services, although they do not have any current deals in negotiation. They sell Zaldiva cigars and accessories through their e-commerce web site as well as through direct sales to establishments and individuals. They also receive some referral business. They advertise through trade shows and some periodicals, although the bulk of our advertising is done on the Internet. Their web site, www.zaldivacigars.com acts mainly as an online brochure, but they are also able to accept orders through the shopping cart on the site. Comic Books and Related Collectibles. Comic books have been around at least as long as movies have. According to The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide’s regular publication The Golden Age Quarterly , 1933 saw the publication of the first comic book in the size that would subsequently define the format. Credit for the first comic book ever created typically goes to Richard Fenton Outcalt's creation, "The Yellow Kid," in 1896. Outcalt essentially synthesized what had been made before him and introduced a new element, the balloon, a space where he wrote what the characters said, and that pointed to their mouth with a kind of tail. From that point, the basis for a brand-new kind of art was set, and the adventure began. In the first decades of their life, comic books were primarily for children’s amusement, and this explains the name they carry today in the English language. Presently, the comic book industry is still going strong more than 100 years after its birth. With advances like computer generated images (CGI), today's movie screens are filled with stories from comic books. In recent times, we have experienced such blockbuster movie hits as the "Batman" saga; "Spawn," which had its own animated series on HBO; "Spider-Man"; "X-Men" and "X-Men 2"; "The Hulk"; "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"; "DareDevil"; "Hellboy," "The Punisher" and "Electra". Many television shows have also sprung from the pages of comic books, most notably, "Smallville." This unlimited market transcends all barriers, including age, race and gender, and also language, since most shows and movies are released in dubbed versions world-wide. Movies are released twice, first at the theater and then again in DVD and/or VHS format. The comic books themselves create a demand for collectible items; and the movies and televisions shows create even more of a demand. A popular comic book can, and often does, spawn hundreds of items to be collected and adored by its fans. Zaldiva is engaged in the business of selling those items – everything from the comic book to the movie adaptation soft-cover book, and from the t-shirt to the prop replicas for the die-hard fans. Brick-and-Mortar Store With the grand opening of their brick-and-mortar retail location in December, 2006, their operations began to take a more traditional marketing approach. Traditional Marketing The Company has taken out advertisements in local papers read by their target audience and they have also purchased radio spots on high-school and college radio stations. Flyers have been passed out as well as cooperatively placed in local businesses and restaurants. A costumed character was hired to wave to the traffic passing by in front of the store. More than 65,000 cars pass the location each day on their way to the highway entrance, so the sign on the building itself is a huge and effective form of advertisement. Zaldiva.com Advertisement for their web site is done through search engines, banner exchange programs and opt-in e-mail activities – all designed to drive traffic to our site. Weekly specials and featured items are regularly created to increase return traffic. Zaldiva’s principal products are the comic books, toys and collectibles that they sell from their store in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and through their web site (www.zaldiva.com). They also sell cigars and accessories, but this currently comprises less than ten percent of our business. Zaldiva has maintained an e-commerce web presence through Zaldiva.com since July of 1997. Experience and a very low overhead are Zaldiva's principal advantages in this area. They also provide upscale web site development, design, programming and hosting, although this facet of their operations has also declined in importance in recent years. They have developed and maintain web sites for approximately 100 clients. Most of their clients are businesses. They are involved in many different industries and are widely dispersed geographically. They charge their clients on average $20 per month for hosting services, as well as design, updating and service fees. Zaldiva Web Solutions co-locates their servers with Rackspace, which allows them to offer 100% up time, guaranteed, with multiple connections for redundancy. It has approximately one megabyte of bandwidth, which is enough to support over 200 sites. They do not believe they will need to expand their bandwidth capability in the near future. In their comic books business, they sell pop-culture comic book related collectibles, that primarily include action figures, dolls, statues, die-cast vehicles, T-shirts, books, magazines, posters and lithographs, household decor and decorative items, board and card games, caps and hats, licensed advertisements, plush toys, and some sports memorabilia. The only services related to their comic book and related collectibles business provided by them are those services regarding newsletter subscriptions and/or free email accounts. Distribution Methods of the Products or Services All items sold in their comic book and related collectibles business are sold on their online stores at Zaldiva.com and ZaldivaComics.com and, since December, 2006, in their retail store in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. In November, 2003, they began accepting PayPal and eChecks from Authorize.net as payment for their products (in addition to traditional credit card payments). This has allowed them to make non-U.S. sales with ease, and these payment methods have proven beneficial. LEADERSHIP Robert B. Lees, President, CEO
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